In the advent of the new board I thought it may be worthwhile to consider a slight change. Much of conversation in TUC board, I think, should be moved to the WLW. We as a community have kind of decided that each dedicated board contains the spoilers up to the reading of that book. As such, I think now that TUC is coming soon (hopefully), and since in light of the entire forum move, I think it might be a good idea to move the topics to WLW.

That way we can still discuss the WLW stuff without fear of TUC spoilers, since, by design, TUC board will be discussing the book. It will be a bit awkward for some time after TUC is released, in regards to what is/isn't spoiler tagged. If the conversation where moved to WLW, then this could be somewhat alleviated. Those interested in continuing the conversation about WLW could do so, and those sufficiently worried about spoilers would be able to avoid TUC board until they finished reading.

Hopefully you havent moved to much yet, I wouldn't want to have to do it twice.

Title: Re: Suggestion Box
Post by: What Came Before on April 23, 2013, 03:21:26 am

What you see is what you get, Wilshire, so far ;). I did one session of motion, most of the forums with the least posts. I'm setting my sights for TUC and Misc. next, and I might hazard another episode tonight before bed (though, it's been a two jobs long day and I have a Latin exam tomorrow within another two jobs day) - quite unprepared.

Madness, dumb question, but have you already advertised this board on Westeros? Not sure if they frown upon that. Breaking into tight-knit communities can be very difficult, and I'd hate to think we missed out on some great discussion because tentative members don't feel like breaking into what looks like an insular community. Not that we are, but you get the picture.

Title: Re: Suggestion Box
Post by: What Came Before on April 23, 2013, 04:51:38 am

Lol.

Short answer, yes. It's my sig there and in the past I've earned myself some reprimands for plugging the original SA in excess (by members, never moderation) - I can't help that our discussions here encompass and exceed those at Westeros and thus beg to be referenced ;). It's the nature of using an entire forum to discuss Bakker rather than one thread.

But again, this rendition of Second Apocalypse is an official bid to attract engage membership - I've upped the ante considerably, I think.

Just noticed that there is an "Average online per day" listed, which is kind of what I was asking for. Its close to 17, which I find interesting. I wonder how its calculated? I could believe that there are 17 unique visits per day if it counts the guests, since half are likely just spam-sranc. That brings the count closer to 10 or 8, which seems reasonable.

Not sure who's suggestion it was, but whoever said it would be a good idea to have a topic that labled "Unholy consult release date" or something similar, you where right. Its nearly the top viewed topic on the site with nearly 1500 views. That topic has certainly drawn a couple people here. Hopefully some of them has stuck around.

Not sure who's suggestion it was, but whoever said it would be a good idea to have a topic that labled "Unholy consult release date" or something similar, you where right. Its nearly the top viewed topic on the site with nearly 1500 views. That topic has certainly drawn a couple people here. Hopefully some of them has stuck around.

If you are talking about the forum ranks (http://second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=1006.0), then yeah, I think I'll add a poll to it right now and then likely baztek is going to win. It's not like we can't change them. And though I think we should reduce the post counts we should leave big margins somewhat as they are.

I recently sticked a copy of Links to Fan Resources (http://second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=883.0) to Misc. Chatter and all the Earwa subforums (it is also originally stickied here in News/Announcements). The SMF system here doesn't allow global threads ??? ...

You're welcome to update it, reword it, etc, and I'll change my post.

Especially, you can help us get over the hurdles in the dreaded Pre-FAQ (http://second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=779.0), which asks, for four pages, what even goes into a Bakker FAQ?

we have an unread posts link at the top of the page and a new replies to your posts link at the top of the page that save me a ton of time (by using them I don't have to click forward and back through forum navigation). How about just a "all new posts" link?

I have wondered about this as well. Once you have no new messages in either "show new replies" or "show unread posts since last visit", the top of the table changes to something like "No more message, click here to see all unread posts". This takes you to a page that lists every post you haven't read.

I almost never go through all the forums manually anymore due to these 3 links.

Anyway, I don't know how to get to that page without the link, and sometimes I have posts that I am saving to read later so I can't access the 3rd page :P. It would be nice to have that linked right under the two we already have.

Actually its:"No unread topics found since your last visit. Click here to try all unread topics."

here is the link it points to:http://second-apocalypse.com/index.php?action=unread;all;start=0

But I'm not sure if anyone else can actually use it.

EDIT:It may be worse nothing, for those interested in this type of thing, that the quote above remains exactly the same once you run out of posts in either "Show unread posts since last visit" or "Show new replies to your posts".This amuses me, so I thought I'd share :)

Title: Re: Suggestion Box
Post by: MG on April 05, 2014, 04:26:08 pm

Hey! I have a suggestion!

Really, I don't know if this is needed or if my browser is just messed up, but I would like a little arrow to go to the next page in the thread. Would that be good or dumb?

A few of them are getting pretty big now, and I think it would encourage people to start new topics (which almost no one has done yet). It might also help keep some boards "on topic" (more of a side-effect than an actual driver since its not really a big deal either way).

A few of them are getting pretty big now, and I think it would encourage people to start new topics (which almost no one has done yet). It might also help keep some boards "on topic" (more of a side-effect than an actual driver since its not really a big deal either way).

21? My first reaction is to take a cue from Westeros? I don't remember if threads were ever capped on ZTS.

Edit: Also the lost password function isn't working/isn't sending any e-mails. In the end I just got lucky and remembered my password.

Thanks, will look into it.

Sorry but I could not replicate the issue. I made a new account with a new email, logged out, went to recover password, and it sent me an email.

Possible solutions:1) You forgot which email you had/have linked to your account2) You didn't wait long enough for the page to load after you submitted the request. It took at least 2 minutes, maybe even longer, after I hit "submit" for a new page to load that told me an email was sent to my account. It is possible that if you don't stay on the page and wait for it to load fully, then the system doesn't have enough time to process your request and it cancels it.

Maybe a false positive for an error, but will keep it logged here just in case.

Never heard of Westeros, but 21 sounds like a lot for us. 15 posts per page, 21 pages is 315 posts per topic. We only have 1 at that threshold right now.

Maybe we should wait for your mystical "uptick" in users. Sigh. its what we do best around here, waiting...

:P

Friend, the dividends we experience from this place are a correspondence of cause, not a raison d'etre. And truly we aren't waiting for a community, we have one. It's just one where the majority watch and scrutinize the minority who manifest it (there are few content-generating members ;))... Something inherently balanced in that though.

15? And I'll take some time later today and make that and the short-stories subforum happen (though I really don't know that I'm going to call it that).

Like I said, might be best to wait (btw had to google "raison d'etre"), and as for the rest: i just enjoy complaining so pay me no mind.

The separations of sub-forums is putting bets for the future. Right now it might not make a ton of sense, but as numbers/comments/participation grows so too will the need for organization. Either wait until its a huge pain, or change now and risk looking silly for having an empty sub.

Wilshire [22|May 10:53 am]: We'll get it back in time I'm sure. Kind of irritating to have that placeholder though. We should probably switch it to something else in the interim.Garet Jax [22|May 10:55 am]: That's what I was thinking... Even little peace signs, which I hate for some reason, would work.

I haven't heard from Sovin in a minute (been like two weeks). He was talking about securing our security scripts, which apparently costs some coin and was taking up his time allocated for us. I can make it the original coloured blocks again for now?

Anyone else having problems with messaging? Takes a long time to send, then half the time I get an error message. Kinda weird since it was working a week/two weeks ago. Also haven't been able to participate in the quorum for some time now.

You're most likely sending multiple queries. Unless the server only hosts this website its pretty unlikely to be an isolated or occasional problem there.Which leaves your ISP's (in which case try the alternate DNS above), or your clients.What browser are you each using?

That is still client side, SR. Corrupted local data would cause problems connecting to the web in general, as far as I understand it, much more than a few problems on one site.Got big problems if you have been DNS-spoofed, especially if you do any online finances. My ISP's DNS was causing me similar problems recently with a few specific websites; intermittent communications et al. but fine on most sites.